It will see tens of thousands of people visit on the day for a military parade featuring 1,200 service personnel, veterans and cadets as well as other events to celebrate the military.

Speaking to Conwy county councillors, Wing Commander Tracey Broome, who helps to organise the event for the Ministry of Defence praised the council’s approach to successfully bidding for the event.

She said: “You had a lot of competition from across the country and from some big cities. I have been in the job for a long time and what I received from Conwy was the gold standard for applications. It was what an application should look like for an event like this.”

This year’s event was held in Liverpool and attracted 200,000 people, a number the Wing Commander said the county should expect to repeat.

“I would say it would be between 60,000 and 200,000, 60,000 because that was the smallest event we’ve had and in Liverpool this year there were 200,000 people at it.”

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Cllr Ronnie Hughes who helped secure the government funding said: “I was given the task of getting the money from Carl Sargeant. My only regret was that he came over so quickly that I should have asked for more!”

Council leader, Gareth Jones: “This is a great achievement for Conwy, I would like to place on the record the great work of the former council and Cabinet in getting this. I am sure we can all look forward with great excitement.”